Minchath Aharon [novellae and discourses on Orach Chaim]

PARDO, JACOB BEN DAVID

Gad ben Issac Foa

Venice

1809

FIRST EDITION

Vinograd, Venice 2170

Jacob ben David Pardo served as Rabbi at Ragusa and Spalato in the eighteenth century. The illustrious Pardo family, deriving its name from Prado in Castile, produced many distunguished members. Indeed, Jacob’s father and grandfather both served tenures with the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation London. In Minchath Aharon, Jacob ben David expounds on the precepts for the religious ritual upon awakening, for the three daily prayers, and moral precepts. See: A. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951), pp. 78-9. See also I. Solomons, David Nieto and Some of His Contemporaries, in JHSET, Vol. XII pp.88-90.